City Quote by Patrick deWitt

I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a…

— Jack Hemingway

Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and…

— K. M. Soehnlein

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories…

— Candace Bushnell

I had tried to write about young women in London who had jobs and boyfriends, and it was so tedious.

— Emma Healey

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out…

— Colin Meloy

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place,…

— Antony Beevor

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

— Colman Domingo

“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”

— Christopher Bram

“Without rich people who want it done now, who would animate the free world? In theory, you want everyone to live peacefully according to…

— Michael Cunningham

“I think I was born to write. My mother would put a typewriter on the dining room table and say "there you go". My…

— Ida Pollock